AnAge entry for Octodon degus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Octodontidae
Genus: Octodon
- Species
- Octodon degus
- Common name
- Degu
- Maximum longevity
- 14 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 182 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 182 days
- Gestation
- 90 days
- Weaning
- 36 days
- Litter size
- 6 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.8
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 14 g
- Weight at weaning
- 71.2 g
- Adult weight
- 235 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0323 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 124%
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.6ºC or 99.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.9580 W
- Body mass
- 199.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004800 W/g
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
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- Taxonomy ID 10160
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